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XWayland has added a new '-glamor' command-line argument to allow specifically choosing between OpenGL or OpenGL ES use for acceleration.

The KDE Plasma 6 Alpha release is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 8 November, along with the soft feature freeze for Plasma 6.0 at that time.

Last year Intel made available a packaged 'Arc Graphics Driver' for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and later Ubuntu 23.04 to provide a DKMS-backported kernel driver and packaged Mesa driver to make it easier to use Arc Graphics (DG2/Alchemist) during the phase when the upstream kernel support was still stabilizing and not yet found out-of-the-box on Linux distributions at the time

There is some interesting new Arm and RISC-V SoC support to be found in the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel.

Since Linux 6.6 we've been seeing work upstreamed for sysctl working to remove its sentinel, the final empty element on each sysctl array

As with each kernel cycle, the networking subsystem updates for Linux 6.7 are heavy with a wide assortment of core networking infrastructure improvements, (e)BPF features continue to be tacked on, and new wired and wireless network hardware is supported.

The Linux 6.7 sound subsystem changes submitted this week by maintainer Takashi Iwai include support for a number of new audio devices/platforms.

The biggest surprise this week so far with the Linux 6.7 merge window has been the landing of the Bcachefs file-system.

OpenRazer as the community-driven, open-source project providing driver support for Razer peripherals on Linux is out with a new feature release.

More Linux kernel code around Intel's Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) has landed with the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel.